World's top autism experts online next week - and it's free!

[Adam Feinstein]

Hello,

 

www.autism2006.org

 

 

A number of extremely prominent names have now joined the list of more than sixty world experts taking part in Awares' second free international online autism conference from October 4-11, 2006. All the experts will be available to answer your questions, and entry is totally free.

 

This is the largest such conference ever to be held. You can register for free right now at www.autism2006.org to read the abstracts of most of the experts' papers and exchange views with other conference delegates in the online Foyer Caf�. The conference opens officially on October 4 and lasts for at least a week - but I will almost certainly extend the event, as I did twice last year because it proved so enormously popular (with more than 10,000 people joining in the discussions).

 

The speakers this year include:

 

* Donna Williams and Wendy Lawson, two of the world's best-known autistic writers and speakers

* Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor Laurent Mottron, Professor Margot Prior and Professor

Helen Tager-Flusberg, four of the world's most outstanding autism experts

* Chris and Gisela Slater-Walker (a married couple who provide two brilliant papers on living with

Chris's Asperger's syndrome);

* Dr Darold Treffert and Dr Richard Becker, the world's two leading authorities on autistic savants

* Larry Arnold and Danny Beath, two British photographers with Asperger's syndrome

* Paul Shattock and Dr Karl Reichelt, two of the world's foremost experts on autism and diet

* Stephen Shore, a well-known speaker with autism

* Dr Karen Pierce and Dr Manuel Casanova, two leading authorities on the neurological aspects of

autism

* Dennis Debbaudt, the world's top expert on training the emergency services to recognise and

understand autism

* Jacqui Jackson, mother of seven children (including four on the autistic spectrum) and her son, Luke,

a well-known author and speaker with Asperger's syndrome

 

 

Among the new names are four of the world's leading autism authorities: Professor Jill Boucher (UK), Professor Isabelle Rapin (USA), Professor Robert DeLong (USA) and Professor Colwyn Trevarthen (UK).

 

Other international speakers include:

 

Professor Michael Fitzgerald (Ireland), Dr Mitzi Waltz (UK), Dr Julie Donnelly (USA), Dr Roberto Canitano (Italy), Dr Howard Ring (UK), Dr Olga Bogdashina (Ukraine), Stephen Shore (USA), Dr Teija Kujala (Finland), Professor Stephen von Tetzchner (Norway), Professor Laurent Danon-Boileau (France) and Dr Sven Boelte (Germany).

 

 

Other important newcomers to the conference include:

 

* Dr Dinah Murray (UK), a worker, researcher, writer, campaigner and teacher in the field of autism and

its variants

* Merry Barua (India), director of Action for Autism, the primary organisation in South Asia specialising

in autistic spectrum disorders and related pervasive developmental disabilities

* Dr Ulla Holck (Denmark) and Dorita Berger (USA), two of the world's most important specialists in

music therapy for autism

* Chantal Sicile-Kira (USA), one of the leading American experts on adolescence, who in her paper

provides invaluable practical tips for teenagers with autism

* Carole Rutherford (UK), co-founder of Autism-in-Mind (AIM), a national campaign and support group

* Jeanette Purkis (Australia), an artist with Asperger's syndrome and an uplifting message

* Christine Breakey (UK), who has particular expertise in further and higher education and was

responsible for setting up and developing the Autism Support Service in Sheffield

* Dr Peter Enticott (Australia)

* Dr David Beversdorf (USA)

* Dr Evelyn McGregor (UK)

* Dr Paul Ashwood (USA)

* Dr Shari Au (USA)

* Dr Dirk Dossche (USA)

* Dr Diane Williams (USA)

* Dr Heather Cody Hazlett (USA)

* Dr Daniel McIntosh (USA)

* Dr Molly Losh (USA)

 

 

All the autism experts will be available in the week of October 4 to 11 to answer your questions.

 

Topics for discussion include: Brain Research, Biomedical Approaches, Education, Asperger's syndrome, Autism and relationships, Autism and computers, Autism and perception, Communication methods, Sensory problems in autism, First-hand experiences - Voices from the spectrum, Genetics, The culture of autism, Autism and the environment, The immunology of autism, Diagnosis, Socialising difficulties in autism, Music therapy, Language and autism, Autism and the emergency services, Autism in film, Autism in adolescents and Adults with autism.

 

 

To find out more about Autism2006, register and receive email updates with all the latest conference news, please go to www.autism2006.org

 

The conference is organised by Autism Cymru, the national autism charity for Wales.

 

For further details, please contact myself, Adam Feinstein, at adam@autismcymru.org or telephone Laura Morgan on (0)29 20464940 in Cardiff. To register for Autism2006, simply go to www.autism2006.org

 

Best wishes,

 

Adam Feinstein

 

adam@autismcymru.org

Edited September 27, 2006 by Kathryn

[oracle]

Well I can't wait to read this one 'Overinvolved parents'

 

Oracle

[Kathryn]

Hmm - interesting. Let's wait and see.

 

K x

[onlycrazygal]

cant wait.......should be interesting!!!!!!

[barefoot wend]

Oracle

 

Have to agree, 'Overinvolved Parents' caught my eye. Hope it's not as bad as it sounds.

 

Barefoot

[LittleRae]

Guess that could include all of us lol!

 

Was very impressed by this conference last time - looking forward to it

[curra]

I'm looking forward to it and to the "overinvolved parents" article. Can there be parents who are too involved in their children's upbringing? I hope it's not someone telling us parents that we must sit back and put all our trust in the SS, education and health systems...